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Skip hirer cut to a single vehicle

20th April 2000, Page 20
20th April 2000
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23 A Lancashire skip hire operator has had his 0-licence Out from two vehicles to one with a warning that further maintenance problems will lead to its revocation. Preston-based Peter Marquis, trading as WJ Waste Disposal, had been

called before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.

The Deputy TC was told that a vehicle stopped at Kirkham in July was displaying an 0-licence disc belonging to a different vehicle and a tax disc belonging to an agricultural tractor. The vehicle was given an immediate prohibition for significant maintenance failure.

Vehicle examiner Philip Harrison said he had inspected the vehicle by prearrangement in December, issuing it with an immediate prohibition for a number of defects, including brakes and loose propshaft bolts. There were gaps of up to seven months in the inspection records; there was no forward planning system; and there were no qualified staff When asked about the vehicle stopped at Kirkham, Marquis had told Harrison that he was trying to make the vehicle last without spending money on it as he was preparing a replacement vehicle. A new vehicle had been put on the road at the beginning of March and maintenance was being contracted out to a reputable commercial garage.

He agreed that he had made a large investment and that it would be a blow if the licence were to be revoked.

Because of a delay in obtaining a licence disc for the vehicle stopped at Kirkham he had used the previous vehicle's disc as it was the same size of vehicle. The excise licence had been a genuine mistake, as the vehicle had been properly taxed at the time. It had been the very last day of that vehicle's working life.

After receiving a number of undertakings about maintenance the Deputy TC cut the licence to one vehicle and gave Marquis 28 days to prove that the vehicle stopped at Kirkham had been taxed.


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